BH BIZ STAR 2026 AWARDS

Sponsored by Mayo Wynne Baxter

The top award for a company – there are many ways in which your application will be given consideration. A leader in sustainability, a magnet attracting the best people, treats employees well, generates a good company ethos, one which makes its workforce proud, generous to charity, good CSR contribution and makes a good profit ethically.

However old your business you will be considered, perhaps you started up but a few years ago and are now approaching a scale up stage. You’re a successful, growing, innovative, creative company with exuberant, enthusiastic staff working well together.

Sponsored by Mayo Wynne Baxter

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Sponsored by Epassi

Is there a member of staff that always brightens the working day? Your nominee might be the person most other members of staff would suggest as a spokesperson for the group; someone who knows what is going on, is usually involved in it, and often leading it.

Perhaps someone whose worth to the company has only become clear after time; someone who always gets the job done, and done well, but never brags about it, a person who elicits a comment like “Thank goodness, we have him/her. Don’t know what we’d do without them!”

Sponsored by Plumpton Racecourse

The Community Champion is a company that recognises its corporate social responsibilities (CSR). That involvement in the community could take any number of forms. A company that offers materials to schools, or sponsors team kits for local rugby, football, or cricket teams. A company happy to give its time to support the community by, for example, allowing staff to spend a day at a hospice or other volunteer activities, or helping pack and deliver local Christmas Hampers. Perhaps you allow staff to take time out to fulfil their duties as a Trustee or Treasurer of a local charity.

Sponsored by Thomas Mansfield

We are looking for inspiring positive change and a culture of inclusivity and diversity where EDI is valued and a critical part of the organisation’s mission. A company that has shown demonstrable commitment to place equality and positive relations with its staff and customers at the forefront of what it does.

An organisation where the staff can raise difficult issues on all protective characteristics and promote good practice beyond compliance of the legislation. We are looking for tangible actions by all staff that celebrate the diversity of its own staff and communities around it.

Sponsored by Edwards Vacuum

This should be a company that has the environment in mind in all its activities. It realises the importance of weighing environmental factors against profit; it encourages staff to be green thinking and green acting; it can demonstrate an active recycling programme.  In this category, we are looking for actions, not words!

For a newcomer to the company, an apprentice or trainee who has shown enthusiasm, willingness to do more, creativity, genuinely fits in well with all staff, will get on in this business.

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A company award, or an award for a group or team within a company, who get results, perhaps smash targets, for example, perhaps a HR team who have innovated, made great changes with success, who have worked well together to move the company forward. Alternatively, this could be the entire company if you are just a small group of less than 10 people.

Sponsored by PVL UK Ltd

This nomination is for a company that creates a great working environment for its staff. It probably retains staff for longer because it looks after them so well; there is a buzz of social activity and it’s a place where people are happy and proud to work and are quick to say so. Staff are encouraged to support each other to get the job done; it’s a company/business that accepts mistakes are part of human behaviour; it encourages ideas and welcomes constructive criticism. It’s somewhere everyone is treated with respect.

Sponsored by Rubix VT

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